Improved bale-band shears



A. H. DANIELS.

Bale Bandf Shears.

No. 87,828. Patented March 2, 1889.

5mm @anni @time g ALBERT H. DANIELS, OF MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE. LettersPatent No. 87,328, dated March 2 1869.

IMPROVED HALE-BAND SHEARS.

To all whom it ma/y concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT HJDANIELS, of .Manchester, county of Hillsborough, State of New Hampshire, `have invented a new and useful Improvement in `She s for Cutting Bale-Bands; and I do hereby de- 1 clar that theifollowing is a clear, full, and exact de- `ion thereof, which will enable others skilled in p .'tto make and use the same, reference being had to "t accompanying drawings, forming a part of this s Dedication, in which- Figure l represents the shears gevelal partsadjusted. Figure 2 represents an elevation of the under blade. Figure 3 represents an elevation of the upper or ightaiand blade. Figure 4 represents the round-headed bolt, through the eye in each blade,

ppgsifion to each other.

`Figure 5, the nut belonging to the bolt. Similar letters of reference indicate like parts. Thislinventon' relates to shears peculiarly adapted f )r severing the metallic bands which are used' to secornplete, with their passing and securing them in bales. y

bltmdg `oy means of -a cold-,chisel and hammer. This, tvtmes,isyrendered extremely difficult, and sometimes mposgible, from the elastic character of the contents oftjhel ba1es, `a.n`d `ordinary shears fail to accomplish the `C '1re Cotton, wpol, or other materials, when packed in ethod heretoforeadopted has been to cut the The Schedule referred` to in thse Letters Patent and making part of the same.

purpose, as, when the points are thrust forward and.

great as to causeA -under theband, and, b y a steady traction with the left hand, which is thrust through the handle of the under blade, (placed at a right angle to the upper blade,)`

while, at the same time, a iirm downward movement of the upper blade is made' with the right,hand, the band is easily severed, Without damage to vor risk of injury to the contents of the bale.

The blades are of steel, either welded to or forged with the handles.

At the outer end of the handles U, an eye, H, is formed, to'allow the shears to be 'suspended om a nail or hook, when not in use.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new, and desire to 4secure by Letters Patent- The combination ofthe blades A D and handles B, E, and C, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

The above .specification of my invention signed by me, this 13th day of J une, 1868.

ALBERT H. DANIELS. Witnesses:

SAMUEL UPTON, H. B. FAIRBANKS. 

